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Last refreshed on: 21 August 2023
Main ID:  NCT02223767
Date of registration: 20/08/2014
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Wuerzburg University Hospital
Public title: TMS Augmented Exposure Therapy BEAT
Scientific title: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) for Treatment of Height Phobics
Date of first enrolment: August 2014
Target sample size: 47
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02223767
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Single (Participant).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Germany
Contacts
Name:     Martin J. Herrmann, PhD
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Affiliation:  University of Würzburg
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Criteria for a simple phobia: specific heights

Exclusion Criteria:

Objective tinnitus Involvement in psychiatric treatments Clinically relevant psychiatric
comorbidity Clinically relevant unstable internal or neurological comorbidity History of or
evidence of significant brain malformation or neoplasm, head injury Cerebral vascular
events Neurodegenerative disorder affecting the brain or prior brain surgery Metal objects
in and around body that can not be removed Pregnancy Alcohol or drug abuse history of
seizures



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Phobia
Intervention(s)
Device: Experimental: Verum TMS
Device: Experimental: Sham TMS
Primary Outcome(s)
Subjective Anxiety in Height Situation (BAT), Differences From Pre (Baseline) to Post Therapy (Week 4) [Time Frame: 4 weeks]
Subjective Anxiety Symptoms [Time Frame: 4 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
098_MH
Wuerzburg177/12
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted: 02/08/2023
Date Completed:
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT02223767
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